The students have brought back a long-running, annual engineering prank of placing awkward objects at the most unlikely locations. Photos by campus newspaper The Ubyssey show that a Vollkswagen Beetle was lifted overnight to the top of the clock tower next to Koerner Plaza, and the clock itself has been covered by a ‘E’ that marks the engineering faculty identity.

The prank by engineering students is an attempt to highlight their skills in a very public way while also celebrating highly engineered structures. In 2008, they dangled a Beetle below the Lions Gate Bridge bridge deck and attempted to repeat the stunt in 2010 off the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge.

However, that stunt on the Second Narrows crossing failed when the cables snapped, causing the car to drop into the water. Students responsible for that stunt were caught in the act and fined.